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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN ID IS MY TTT .TTTiTT TT nvfm 4y vuvu'-irillLiUi'll Col. Robert" L. Scoff far: Umt at r hi After inauaUai second ueateaaal wIbi al Kelly L n wtait Sytaf. Wbea Ltaliu lastnctw l,j lold be n iw om iw chaact to ty a earnest r. a epporiumij co"- fell wife aa child aa i. India. ! Ba MoL which ! aoi .iii Central Cha Lalied a Klttyaawk, and L( tbe ikle BTtr Burma. Ei jp bomber, Saras ap kai cats a p JAPTER XIII . .1 iirrt lome now mai me mu, rhmnault as Com to be inducted Into the yp$. cnennauii, wen a L Chinese Army but (in in the U. S. Army. ten the rank of Briga- to head the uuna Air But from -what I pad i the few newapapera ved and from rumora throueh. I knew that Jhe AVG were going to Ban. officious men around ma-India theater who VG were unruly and To these statements Irked that I wished wt undisciplined groups have destroyed some thousand enemy air- that would certainly the Japanese. There kho claimed that the I AVG fought for the knd the extra bonus of dollars for each ene- ley shot down. That Vh, for I had seen the later on I was to fly :inst the enemy. I 'at pilots I knew that at American adventur- have fought hut at Imits or Confederate u as they were fight kl Chennault and were kloved P-40's. tow: after long hour I men were tired: they I of the United States est trying conditions war. They were all at fatigue and needed p them were combat-zht combat-zht never to be risked I the Induction of the (snag, from poor Judg part of one man. It peone had lined the Mat-talk on the flam jo into the Army, and I little tact He re fer stories intimating I (ought for the hi eh l-between $600 to $750 piing on whether or ps a wing man or a ler. This salesman lie that he sincerely I would accept indue Iff they didn't, and fctracts with Cameo would probably find Fds waiting for them wed off the boat that pack to the United I ease, they would of lied as privates rath' stoned as officers fatage of the AVG have ot un and Speech. After All. trtnmg fighter pilots one of the greatest I superior odds that I reported. In this ft beine threatened h knowledge of all F- i know that from J taught the Chinese Ithe refueling truck reverse sales-folved sales-folved an exDreaaion fas never permitted Potion. The boy ome of the AVfl ft China to run up r'"at landed. and P Jot out. to repeat f" an unprintable f"on aimed at the l" gas-truck coo- fV meet ever P.-47 leountenance would Most of the "we sure , that he transport unload- . out several times I American flying p w ume. 'uler way. I be. ' one of the AVG "t ble would have '. only flve pilotJ T Wty ground-J1 ground-J1 wanted to dl-wo dl-wo groupthote c tandpoint bad-United bad-United Stat.,, without fw. We were to tne Durnlng of the train la Indo- uuna. and the newt nt m. - - m"j vur man war in Burma, the atory got to uie war correspondents. 1 began to hear from home in the Stt. that I had been written up as "The wne-aaan Air l orce." From an ego- uaucai etanapoint I felt the thrill that a normal person would, but by this time I was beginning to real. ize inai one man and one ship in this type of warfare meant very lit- ue. In the days that followed I sank barges filled with enemy soldiers, bombed enemy columns and strafed enemy soldiers swimming in the water wa-ter from the barges I had sunk. But when I went back next day there were more and more JaDa iurrin northward into upper Burma towards to-wards India. No. the title waa an empty one for even I, with my egotism ego-tism of success in combat, knew by now that one man could miir. n real mark on thia enemv that tar A were flghtinc. I had the tifr tlon. however, of knnwlnv ihnt t learning things. I had the expert-ence expert-ence of ten years of military flying, end I knew I waa a a-nnrt nl1t Tn day was coins tn mm nhm thit knowledge of mine, learned the bard way, would helD train the new unit. that would come from home. There is no substitute for combat You've got to Shoot at Deonle while vmrre oemg snot at yourself. For the time beine. thou eh. there was 1USt Uie One shin. anH I nnnul it like a baby. Flvins it ennatantiv I had begun to feel a part of it Sometimes at night I'd think of my wife and little irL but never in combat Sometimes, comlne home after striking the enemv. TA think nt k i .1. : . . . X ""'" ""u uiey seemea iar, rar away. Towards the last of May, after I'd flown Just about two hundred hours W N.U. R&LLASE. I ; ... 1 v Vv d J f - - , , , a ?. v . k a alp, I would begin to pull out slowly end count one count for every thousand thou-sand feet of my elevation above the target Then as the ship came almost al-most level. If I was at two thousand thou-sand feet when I reached the count of "two," Td drop the bomb. I let the four barges get almost to the makeshift wharf; then I dove from my cloud cover. As I got the middle two barges on my gun-aight I made a mental resolution not to be short for even If I went over I'd hit the Japs In the town. As I passed three thousand feet the nearest barge went under me, and I began to pull out and count: "One two-three two-three pull" putting in the extra count to insure me acainat hein short I felt the bomb let n i Jerked the belly-tank release, and I turned to get the wins out of the way so that I could see the bomb hit The five hundred Dounda of TNT exploded either right beside the leading barge or between the barge closest to shore and the dock. A. tne black smoke cleared. I pieces of the barge splashing into the river a hundred yards from the explosion. I went down and atraferi but the black smoke ihiew that I could see very little to con centrate On: SO I Climbed to three thousand feet and waited for the smoke to clear. Then I dove for the two barges that were drifting down the river. I must have put two hundred rounds into each of them. I got one to burning, and from the black smoke it must have been loaded load-ed with gasoline. On my second raid I dropped a five-hundred-Dound bomb on the largest building in Homalin. which me unusn intelligence reported the next day bad been the police sta tion. They said that two hundred Japanese were killed in that bombing, bomb-ing, and that between six hundred and a thousand were killed in the series of bombings. Many bodies were picked ud about thirtv mile down the Chindwin at Tamu and Sit- tlang. All four of my bomba had done some damage, and I was quite sausned. In British Intelligence reDorta reno urn naaio Tokyo bad men tioned Homalin. One bombins hail taken place, it IMRli. with varv slight damage, and that only to the innocent Burmese villagers, but the Imperial Japanese Army had evac uated Homalin because of the serious malaria that was orevalent there , Anyway. I always like to think that my lour trips to Homalin with four wo-pound packages of good old American Pica tinny TNT had something some-thing to do with the monkey-men's deciding that tbe malaria was too bad along the Chindwin. Kathleen Norris Says: Marital Mix-Up tJI tTBdlcataWNU reaturaa. " ' ' -- ir SEWING CIRCLE IMTTFPVC Dress-Up Frock a Favorite Lingerie Set Is Most Flattering A Jap bomber Is shot down CoL Scott's first aerial combat. & home ttelr con-"rminated) con-"rminated) and Itismyopln. Pr cent of !Vccepted thl,of. ,ta'l with itt eontrctt ex-. ex-. Bv were enough. ffnd continued '.m on the T-- the AVO. in combat and had gathered about a hundred holes in my ship, I think I must have wondered if I'd ever see them again. I carried a Tommy gun with me in the cockpit of the shin. for at strafing altitude there would probably be no time to bail out with tne chute anyway, and I knew that prisoners taken by the Japs receive very harsh treatment especially those who have been strafing the capturing troops when shot down. My greatest bombing day came late in the month of May. when I dropped four 500-pound bombs at Homalin, down on the Chindwin. where the Japs seemed to be con centrating. Early in the morning I headed South with the heavy yel low bomb, slowly climbing over the naga Hills and through the overcast over-cast topping out at 15,000 feet As I continued South on the course to where the Uyu met the Chindwin River, the clouds lowered but the overcast remained solid. In one hour, computing that I had made the 180 miles to Homalin, I let down through --the overcast, hoping that the mountains were behind me. Luck was with me, as it usually was in my single-ship war, and I found the overcast barely a hundred feet thick. I couldn't see Homalin and my target area, but I kept rlcht ud against the cloud ceiling and circled warily. I knew that I was in luck: I could droo the bomb and then climb right back into the overcast no matter how many Jap fighters came to Intercept. Soon I saw my target and sure enough, there were loaded barges coming out of the broad Chindwin and heading for the docks of Homalin. Homa-lin. I continued circling against the clouds at 11.000 feet For I had a plan. Dive-bombing from a P-40 is not the most accurate In tbe world: -you can't dive very steeply or the bomb might hit the propeller, and also in too steep a dive Ifs hard to recover In the high speeds that are built up. It seemed io me that the type of bombing bomb-ing one had to do In order to keep the speed under control and to miss the-prop, was more In the nature of glide-bombing. Most beginners, however, are always short with their bombs. That Is to say, the projectile projec-tile strikes before it gets to the tar-getson tar-getson the line of approach, rather than over it From my practice bombings on the Brahmaputra, I had developed a rule of thumb: I would dive at some forty-five de grees; then, as the target in my gun- sight passed under the nose of my My raids with "Old Exterminator" Extermina-tor" continued through May and into June. Some days Td climb out of In India through the rain clouds of the monsoon and fly on into Burma. The trip back would then be one to worry wor-ry me, for I never knew exactly when to let down. Almost every day, however, if I worked my takeoff take-off time properly I'd get back from the mission as the storm clouds were breaking, and I'd have a nice. welcome hole to dive through. On other days when I wasn't so lucky, I'd Just have to roll over and dive for the valley of the Brahmaputra and that s where I always came out or I wouldn't be here to tell about it Some of the flights into Burma were just a waste of gasoline: I would see nothing. It follows that I have written of the more exciting ones. There's nothing so monotonous monoto-nous as to fly for four hundred miles with plenty of ammunition, or tome. times for two hundred to three hun dred miles with a heavy bomb attached, at-tached, and find no place to drop it I'd have to come back then, and gingerly letting down through the dark monsoon clouds, land the 500 pounds of TNT as if I had a crate of eggs aboard. After all, we didn't have bombs to waste. Early in June I did have one ex citing trip. From reports of the fer ry pilots I heard that the Japs were building a bridge over the river N'umzup, some forty miles North of Myitkyina. The very afternoon the report reached me, I went over and strafed the engineers at work on the bridge. And I nearly cot shot down. for the efficient Japanese had moved in their anti-aircraft with the bridge crew. When I landed at the base helped the ground crew count the thirty small-calibre holes la my ship. My csp bad one hole in it inougn lucKiiy it naa not been on my bead but back in the small baggage bag-gage compartment of the Klttyhawk. That was pretty bad, though, for It was the only cap I had, and for months I had to wear it with all the felt torn from the crown by the Jan aTOund-flre. I rememher th later one of the young bomber crew men asked MaJ. Butch Morgan it was when we stepped from our ahlna after bombing Hongkong whether or not i a oaa inai cap on when the bullet went through. I cussed about the cap and loaded the ship for another run on the bridge. As I came in from another direction this time, and very low, I saw bodies of the enemy from mv first strafing, but the Japs were still working on the bridge. I strafed the working-party in two passes from different directions, so low that the anti-aircraft couldn't shoot at me effectively. (TO BE CONTTNUID) - " SMt Harvty. Intently great rush of turpru,, pleamr, mtd affection went wvrnj i in nu tmoract in a second. "Wi By KATHLEEN NORRIS HEN I divorced mv husband four years aeo. writes Marv- lee Johnson from Sacramento, Sacramen-to, "we were both more or less undisciplined, frivolous persons. We had been married mar-ried 11 years, everything seemed suddenly to go dull and humdrum; there really seemed no reason for our staying together. There was no quarrel, we simply decided one mornine at breakfast that we would be happier apart ana Margot and I left for Reno two days later. For a few months the change and free dom were an immense jelief to me: I lived with a woman friend who had a daughter juargors age, and took a lob. "When my friend's husband came borne unexpectedly from overseas that arrangement naturallv ended After some months of uneomfnrtahle shifting about, I married again. somewhat hesitantly. I felt much less sure of myself at 34 than at SI, and although Phil is everything mat is una, generous, intelligent, industrious, yet I know that I have never been truly in love with him, He was 90 when we were married, a captain in the regular service. He has now been overseas for one year, and sometimes, like many other wartime brides, I dare say, I feel i if I hardly knew him. "WeD, here la my problem, one that has cost me many days and sights of bitter worrying. Four months ago, walking downtown with Margot who Is now 12, I met Harvey. Instantly a great rush of surprise, pleasure and affection went over me, and in the old way I was in his embrace In a second. He seemed at happy as I. and Margot Mar-got perfectly remembered her adored father as a matter of fact she has visited for some weeks with him and his mother every year, and we had a happy reunion. Harvey, now also in the service as a Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Commander, took ua to lunch, one of the pleasantest hourt ol my life. It Was Foolishness. "You can guets the rest. We were always friends, we never disliked each other. Our parting was all foolishness fool-ishness and a mistake; we three belong be-long together, and we know it now. Harvey will be stationed here for some time, he adores his daughter, he makes himself cheerfully at home m my apartment, and yesterday for the first time he suggested that I get a divorce and that be and I be remarried. "Phil is 52; he has always been a shy and lonesome man; he hat no family. That a woman like mytelf could love him always seemed to him a miracle. His letters are de votion itself. You arc the one thing la life that I care for.' he savs over and over. 'You are the only person who belongs to me, the only one I can call mine.' " Tt he irere not to the picture, if I could be all Harvey's again I PAINFUL CHOICE After 11 yean of peaceful ana comfortable married life, things became too dull for Mary lee. She and Harvey just decided to part no quarrel aiviaea them, it merely seemed the best way out of a tiresome situation. Mary lee ac- coramgiy got a Keno divorce. ana iook ner ume daughter to uve with a friend. One day Mary lee and her daughter unexpectedly met Harvey on the street. There was a haDDY rmninn anA Mary lee realized that she had f J rt . . iovea narveyau tne time. Sow Harvey is asking her to di vorce ner nresmnt huthnnrl and remarry him. Marlee is ' r, w mi o quanaary. sne wants liar VeY back. Vet she Ml a for. J ' J " fain obligation to her second L f t m nusoana, mil, who has been kind, generous and affection ate. ki 1 I r- - ill ' i 43bH1 L I . Bra cefnl anA cit. i , . 5 TnIS princess charmer, accent-ed accent-ed in rickrack. will An thin- I --'50 ivi your figure and make you the envy oi your friends. Trim with novelty buttons. a Pattern No ami 4. ..i. , . . 14. II, It and 20. Size 14 ahort sleeves reoulres S'.L vinii r xo.inK ...,.. ,,. j yards machine-made ruffling to trim. ror this pattern, tend 25 cents in coins yeur name, addreia, slat deaired. and tbe pattern Dumber. Very Attractive ""THE round-necked, extended- shoulder treatment of this nightgown is very flattering and unusually easy to cut and sew. Insert a narrow antln ... w ictni ribbon in the . draw-string; top uiue we sasn oi tne same ribbon. Edge the attractive bed or breakfast break-fast jacket with narrow lace and tie it with another pretty bow ol th? same shade ribbon. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1231 la designed de-signed for ilzea 12. 14, .16, It. 20: 40 an 42. Size 14 nightgown requlrea Vk yardt of 38-inch material; jacket 1 yard. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery St Baa Praaclico, Calif. Encloae 25 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size ,. Name ., Address think I would never ask another fa vor of God I But how can I desert Phil, who stood by me when I was lonely and troubled? What ahall I do? What would be the best thing to 007" The answer, Marylee. is of course that you never should have dl vorced your husband In the first place. Divorce ought to be so aeri. ous, so terrible an affair, especially when there is a child to consider. that K could not be considered ex cept in a grave crisis. Adequate reasons for divorce should nr sarfly be so fundamental that there could never be any question of returning re-turning to married life on the old terms. Marylee. after 11 years, decided on a divorce simply because there didn't seem any good reason to atav married. She has reached one of those points when married life drags on monotonously, nothing ex citing happens; a woman has a good nusband, a lovely child, food anc clothes, books and friends in the most prosperous and secure country in the world but that Isn't enough. She wants thrills, changes, travel, relief from monotony. So she breaks up her home, tries office work, geti bored, marries a good quiet man Who Is longing for comDanionahir and domesticity, meets her first nusband again and falls under the old spell, and then naively asks ad vice as to what is the right coursi to pursue. There it no advice that will heir anyone so unstable in character. V li years of marriage were not enough to establish Marylee in i strong, decent useful manner of liv ing, nothing will. She will probablj divorce Phil and remarry Harvev but that won't solve the oroblem When the war is over Harvey will present the same dull old problem and Marylee will be no nearer realization of the true secret of hap py living than she is today. "Wkm shU I dor . .. Ktp Yoii' Alarm .Clock. Busy Let the alarm clock work for you. An alarm clock can and ahould b used for many purposes othei than waking one up in the morning. morn-ing. When cleaning or working upstairs up-stairs or In a room where there ii no clock, let the alarm clock cal you any time you wish in order U start a meal; or let it announce th time for a favorite radio program. pro-gram. When gardening, set the clock and let it call you to lunch. You can also use the alarm when you art baking or doing other slow cooking Faithfnl Tibetans Carry Prayer Wheels to Spin Every faithful Tihetnn Rh,mm. carries a prayer wheel, which he j-onawnuy spins round. The Tibetans Ti-betans believe in constant n... Baying that the more often you pray uie more likely are your prayers to be heard. So inside everv nv J f- "J W11C are hundreds of tiny pieces of paper, pa-per, each one bearing the prayer "Om Mani Padme Hum " ,KUk being interpreted, means "O, the Jewel in the Lotus." Every time the wheel is smm rmmri oil pieces of paper rotate, so that each turn means that hundreds of mmering pieces of paper have lent their prayer to Heaven, I ST taSkAsa Mextk SMiaT NEWPACJCA6f IhYiHrl Hal ' V'" """""tf DON'T FOOL VITll COLD MISERIES HERE'S FAST RELIEF tniU0KE-EtHcKie. KLIEF TWO-tsJt fever. IEIIEF THRn-Ltssea Udy sdiei. KfllEF FOUI-East stiff Bote. KEIIFJ FlYE-leaWt amtle aches. Cravi CeM Tabtata ft riSM Im la. Ma wwk tanmally m all tkM m r pnmpt nIM. A oaaatoa Mm ef aifhl mcttn letraelMta. Take aa aattr at Sliacua. 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